Author: Marc Fabri

At British Human Computer Interaction Conference, held on Tuesday 4 July, 9.00-12.00 in Sunderland, UK. We invite researchers, designers and practitioners to join us for this workshop and explore how sensitive, personal and sometimes embarrassing information about users can be elicited and shared in a safe and supportive way. The 3-hour workshop will present techniques for developing deep […]

The Leeds Behaviour Lab team organised a session focusing on behaviour change technology at a recent Human-Computer Interaction conference. HCI International is one of the most prestigious annual events in the HCI/User Experience calendar and this year it took place in Los Angeles, USA. The session entitled ‘Experience Design for Behavior Change‘ brought together researchers […]

During the 2013/14 academic year I introduced a new final year module Design Thinking to the Creative Media Technology curriculum here at Leeds Beckett University. Students created blueprints of positive behaviour change interventions whilst following the 5-step process advocated by Stanford University’s d.school: Empathise Define Ideate Prototype Test Design Thinking is a human-centred methodology that […]

Last week I chaired a parallel paper session on “Designing for Behaviour Change” at the 3rd International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU) which was held in Crete, Greece. My co-chair was Prof Marientina Gotsis from University of Southern California. The session featured eight papers, selected in a blind review process by an […]

Paul Doney has had a paper accepted at this year’s HCI International Conference in June 2014, as part of the ‘Experience Design for Behavior Change’ session. The paper is entitled “Keeping creative writing on track: Co-designing a framework to support behavior change” and explores the potential use of persuasive technology to foster and support a […]

Leeds Behaviour Lab has received funding to develop a new research cluster within Leeds Metropolitan University. The cluster will use a Design Thinking approach to create new and innovative behaviour change interventions. Interventions will be based on the needs of, and co-created with end-users. Work will focus on which interventions work best for which situation, […]